Vishal Sunak is the Founder and CEO of LinkSquares, the company behind the fastest-growing AI-powered contracting platform for legal teams. LinkSquares is trusted by more than 800 legal teams at mid-to-large companies, including Commvault, Fitbit, and Wayfair, to move their businesses forward faster. Vishal was named to Boston Business Journal’s 2022 40 Under 40 list, honoring the Boston area’s young professionals who are achieving the most in their careers and giving back to the community. LinkSquares’ rapid growth ranks #10 in Massachusetts and #379 overall on the 2022 Inc. 5000 list of America's fastest-growing companies, landing a top spot for the second year in a row. The company also ranked #90 on the 2021 Deloitte Technology Fast 500™ awards, recognizing North America's most innovative, fastest-growing technology companies. Vishal has a B.S. in Engineering from Northeastern University and an M.S. from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Outside of LinkSquares, Vishal mentors local Boston-based startup founders, plays covers and the blues on his guitar and spends time adventuring with his wife and two young daughters.

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Allison Arzeno is the CEO of Assurance, which helps people choose the best insurance products for themselves. As CEO, Allison leads the company’s strategy to scale and drive growth while staying true to its original mission of building a better insurance solution for the mass market. Allison joined Assurance in 2017 as a chief data scientist, then became president in 2020 and CEO in 2021. She is passionate about using data science to help people address life’s most important challenges and teaching others to find answers in data for themselves. It started with her work in operations research at MIT, where she earned her PhD studying how predictive modeling can help diabetes patients personalize care. She later applied this expertise as CEO of a health wearables startup focused on heart health and as a data science consultant at Sequoia Capital. Allison is the co-author of “The Analytics Edge,” a widely accredited business analytics textbook, as well as a former lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and MIT Sloan School of Management. In addition to receiving her PhD from MIT, Allison holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the University of California, Davis.

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Manik Suri is the Founder and CEO of Therma, a technology startup whose mission is to help protect our food, health, and planet. Therma builds smart cooling technologies to reduce emissions and improve grid resilience of distributed energy resources through refrigeration to help power the grid across food and healthcare industries. Manik is an expert on climate and refrigeration and has been speaking at international climate events like The New York Times Climate Hub at COP26, GreenBiz VERGE Electrify, Techonomy Climate, and WEBIT Impact Forum. Previously, Manik co-founded the Governance Lab (GovLab), an innovation center at NYU that develops technology solutions to improve government. He has been recognized amongst the Top 100 Harvard Alumni in Technology, is a past Affiliate of Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and previously held positions at global investment firm D. E. Shaw & Company and the White House National Economic Council.

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Kristen Bauer is the CEO of Laird Norton Wealth Management (LNWM) and has more than two decades of experience in private wealth management, financial services, and business management. Before joining LNWM, Kristen was a senior leader at Tiedemann Advisors serving as Managing Director for the Pacific Northwest. She also served as CFO, Chief Business Development Officer, Chief Client Service Officer, and then President of Threshold Group. Kristen graduated from the University of Washington Foster School of Business with a Bachelor of Arts with an emphasis in Business and Accounting. She is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and a Personal Financial Specialist (PFS). Kristen grew up in Bend, Oregon, which inspired her love of the outdoors and her ongoing involvement with environmental causes. She currently serves as Board Chair of The Nature Conservancy, Washington Chapter, and is Board President of the Wilderness Awareness School. 

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Kirill Makharinsky is the Founder and CEO of Enki, the company that helps teams with adoption of business intelligence and data tools. Previously, he co-founded Emerging Travel Group (including the brands RateHawk & ZenHotels) a profitable OTA with net annual revenues of over $100M, and Quid, a leading research and analysis tool for strategy teams with revenues of over $50M. In addition to his entrepreneurial ventures, he is an angel investor in Calm, AngelList, Opencare, and more. 

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Greg Schwartz is the CEO and co-founder of Tomo, leading the company in its mission to make buying a home as enjoyable as living in one, by providing an intuitive platform with empathic experts. Prior to Tomo, Greg was part of the executive leadership team at Zillow Group. As president of media and marketplace, he led sales, business strategy, product development and customer service across the company’s Premier Agent, real estate, rental, mortgage, and new construction marketplaces. Before joining Zillow, Greg was VP of advertising sales at CNNMoney, served as the national accounts director for Yahoo's automotive and finance properties, and held multiple positions at DoubleClick. Greg has been named by Inman News as one of the 100 Most Influential Real Estate Leaders and was named to the Swanepoel Power 200. Currently, he is on the board of directors for Car Gurus and the board of trustees for Hamilton College. When he’s not in the office, you can find Greg tearing up the trails on his mountain bike or at the beach with his family.

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Megan Jasper currently works for Sub Pop Records as the label's CEO. She started working for Sub Pop in 1989 and eventually went back to the label in 1998. Before working at Sub Pop she was the Northwest Sales Representative (for five years) for Alternative Distribution Alliance, a music company that distributes mostly independent music to retailers in the US. Megan has also volunteered for numerous non-profits, served on the Board of Directors for SCBWI for four years, volunteered and served on the Board of Directors for The Service Board for ten years, the Board of Directors for the Vera Project for six years and served as a Seattle Music Commissioner for six years. She is currently on KEXP's Board of Directors. When she isn't working, volunteering, or listening to music, she's training for triathlons and hanging out with her family: Brian, Yogi, Bear, Claw, and Pickles. 

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Lisa Gersh is an experienced operating executive and public company board member, having been the CEO of multiple companies and currently serving on three public company boards. Most recently, Lisa was the CEO of the fashion brand, Alexander Wang. Prior to that, Lisa served as the CEO of Goop, Inc. (a lifestyle brand founded by Gwyneth Paltrow) and was the President and CEO of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc. In 2000, Lisa co-founded Oxygen Media with Geraldine Laybourne and served as its President and COO. In 2007, Oxygen was acquired by NBC Universal, and Lisa was made the President of Strategic Initiatives at NBC. Lisa began her career as a lawyer and has 13 years of experience at law firms, one of which she co-founded. Her public company Board experience is quite extensive, having served on the boards of various companies including, Hasbro, Inc., The Bail Project, Pershing Square Tontine Holdings, The Second Shift, and Jones Road. Lisa’s a graduate of the State University of New York Binghamton and holds a law degree from Rutgers Law School.

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Nancy Xiao is the CEO at Mason, where she is responsible for day-to-day company leadership as well as driving its next stage of innovation. She previously served as the President of Mason–overseeing the company’s meteoric growth both in terms of company expansion and platform adoption. A mobile technology and hardware industry nerd, Nancy has undertaken complex challenges, from pushing the boundaries of VR to enabling companies to build their own smart hardware product lines. Prior to Mason, Nancy held various positions at both Oculus and Facebook. Nancy attended the University of Michigan, where she graduated with a BA & BBA with Distinction, in English and Business Administration.

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Matt Ehrlichman is the CEO, Chairman, and founder of Porch Group, a Seattle-based vertical software platform for the home. Porch’s mission is to help home services companies grow and through these relationships to help make the home simple, from moving to maintenance and everything in between. Prior to founding Porch, Matt created his first technology startup, Thriva, in his dorm room at Stanford University, where he also received his Bachelor of Science in Entrepreneurial Engineering and Master of Science in Management Science and Engineering. In 2007, he sold Thriva to Active Network for $60 million and went on to become Active Network’s Chief Strategy Officer, where during his five-year tenure, Active grew from $60 million to more than $420 million in revenue and an initial public offering in 2011. Matt currently lives in Seattle with his wife and three children. 

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